During her career, Loren played opposite the greatest actors of the day, from Clark Gable to Marlon Brando, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Italian movie icon Sophia Loren on Friday is celebrating her 90th birthday with an event organized at the Space Cinema Moderno in her native Rome promoted by the culture ministry, Cinecittà and Archivio Luce,

Loren's 90th birthday will also be marked by a retrospective at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Italy's public broadcaster Rai has planned several reruns of her films, including a restored version of Marriage Italian Style with Marcello Mastroianni, her favourite co-star who died in 1996.

Cinema legend Sophia Loren, who has lived in Switzerland for decades, celebrates her 90th birthday today. “My family is keeping the details a secret from me. But I’m sure there will be lots of love, laughter, music and good food,” she said in the “Corriere della Sera”, according to the “Blick”.

Italian star Sophia Loren, a cinema icon with two Oscars to her name in Hollywood, celebrates her 90th birthday in Rome Friday, just a few days before French actress Brigitte Bardot.La Repubblica newspaper paired her birthday with that of Brigitte Bardot,